PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded some years before 1642. Rulers were....
- Nawab Sidi AMBER
SANAK, Nawab of Janjira -/1642, the title of
Nawab was conferred by Padshah Aurangzeb, married and
had issue. He died 1642.
- Nawab Sidi Yusuf Khan (qv)
- Nawab Sidi YUSUF
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1642/1648, married and
had issue.
- Nawab Sidi Fateh Khan (qv)
- Nawab Sidi FATEH
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1648/-
- KHARIYAT KHAN,
Nawab of Janjira
- Nawab Sidi KASIM
KHAN [Yaqut Khan], Nawab of Janjira
-/1706
- Nawab Sidi SURUL
KHAN [Rasul Khan], Nawab of Janjira 1706/1732
or 1702/1733, married and had issue. He died 1733.
- Nawab Sidi Abdurrahman Khan (second son) (qv)
- Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Khan I (qv)
- Nawab Sidi Muhammed Khan (qv)
- Nawab Sidi Abdurrahim Khan (seventh son)(qv)
- Nawab Sidi Hasan Khan (youngest son) (qv)
- Nawab Sidi HASAN
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1732/1734 and
1740/1746
- Sidi SUMBUL KHAN,
Nawab of Janjira 1734/1737
- Nawab Sidi
ABDURRAHMAN KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1737/1740
- Nawab Sidi IBRAHIM
KHAN I, Nawab of Janjira 1746/1757 and 1757/-
- Nawab Sidi MUHAMMED
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira in 1757, died 1757.
- Nawab Sidi YAQUT
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira -/1772
- Nawab Sidi
ABDURRAHIM KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1772/1784,
married and had issue. He died 1784.
- Nawabzadi (name
unknown), married Nawab Sidi Jahan Khan
(qv)
- Nawab Sidi JAHAN
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1784/1789, died 1789.
- Nawab Sidi IBRAHIM
KHAN II, Nawab of Janjira 1789/1794 and
1803/-
- Nawab Sidi JAMRUD
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1794/1803
- Wazir RASUL KHAN,
Nawab of Janjira 1702/1733, died 1733.
- Wazir IBRAHIM KHAN
I, Nawab of Janjira 1762/177x
- Wazir 'ABD al-RAHIM
KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 177x/1784, married and
had issue.
- Wazir 'Abd al-Karim Yaqut Khan (qv)
- Wazir ABD al-KARIM
YAQUT KHAN, Nawab of Janjira 1784/1791
- Wazir JOWHAR KHAN,
Nawab of Janjira 1791/1802
- Wazir IBRAHIM KHAN
II, Nawab of Janjira 1802/1826, married and
had issue.
- Nawab Muhammed Khan I (qv)
- Sidi Hasan Khan
- Sidi Abdurrahman Khan
- Sidi Abdurrahim Khan
- Nawab MUHAMMED KHAN
I, Nawab of Janjira 1826/1848, he was granted
the title of Nawab in 1840; married and had issue.
- Nawab Ibrahim Khan III (qv)
- Sidi Kasim Khan
- Sidi Muhammed Khan
- Sidi Abdurrahman Khan
- Sidi Yusuf Khan
- Nawab IBRAHIM KHAN
III, Nawab of Janjira 1848/1879, married and
had issue. He died 1879.
- Sidi Muhammed Buxi Khan
- Sidi Abdurrahman Khan
- HH Nawab Sidi Sir Ahmad Khan Sidi Ibrahim Khan
(qv)
- HH Nawab Sidi Sir
AHMAD KHAN SIDI IBRAHIM KHAN, Nawab of
Janjira 1879/1922, born 1862, G.C.I.E. [cr.1906],
K.C.I.E. [cr.1895] (#1),
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; he succeeded to
the gadi on
28th January 1879, his salute raised from 9 to 11 guns
in 1903, with the Nawab enjoying a personal salute of
13 guns from 1918, and a local salute of 13 guns from
1921, he married 1stly, Ahmedbibi, died 1885, married
2ndly, 1886, Nazli Begum, married 3rdly, 1913,
Kalsumbibi (a second cousin), and had issue, one son.
He died 2nd May 1922 (#2).
- HH Nawab Sidi Muhammed Khan II Sidi Ahmad Khan (by
Kalsumbibi)(qv)
- HH Nawab Sidi
MUHAMMED KHAN II SIDI AHMAD KHAN, Nawab of
Janjira 1922/1972, born 7th March 1914, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot and the Deccan College,
Poona, enjoys a permanent local salute of 13 guns,
married 14th November 1933, Nawabzadi Rabia Sultan
Jaha Begum Sahiba [HH Nawab Pari Bano Begum Sahiba of
Janjira], born 23rd December 1913 in Jaora, daughter
of Lt.Col. HH Fakhrud-Daulah Nawab Sir Mohammed
Iftikhar Ali Khan Sahib Bahadur Saulat-e-Jang, Nawab
of Jaora, and his second
wife, Mumtaz Mahal Begum Sahiba, and had issue, one
son and four daughters. He died 1st April 1972.
- Nawabzadi Fatima Jaha Begum Sahiba, born 1934.
- Nawabzadi Ahmadi Jaha Begum Sahiba, born 1935.
- Nawabzadi Mumtaz Jaha Begum Sahiba, born 1939.
- Nawabzadi Qamar-uz-Zamani Sultan Begum Sahiba,
born 1943.
- HH Nawab Sidi Shah Mahmood Khan, Nawab of Janjira
(qv)
- HH Nawab Sidi SHAH
MAHMOOD KHAN, Nawab of Janjira (see above)
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